Electronic Hacks

Mechanical Digital Clock

  Mike Saunby got his hands on one of the most interesting old clocks I have ever seen. It does time and date which isn’t any great feat by todays standards but have a look at the complex electro-mechanical goodness that makes it tick. The big question here is who made the thing, there are no markings on the clock to give us any clues. Anyone know? There are some

Fireball V90 CNC Router Motor Driver Controller Build

  In the past post about the Fireball V90 CNC Router the assembly of the actual router was shown. This time you will see how to make the motor controller to drive the CNC machine. There are many options to choose from. I decided to purchase the motors and control electronics from Probotix since they know what goes best with the Fireball V90. The build details below describe the first

Lightspeed Passive Attenuator using Silonex NSL-32SR2 Optocouplers

  I remember when taking electronics in college it was mentioned that you could order standard transistors, or you could order matched transistor pairs for high end audio use. A pair of transistors that were matched would work in perfect unison since even devices out of the same batch will have some slight variations. Have a look at the image below for an example of testing a ton of devices

Snoop on Pager Data

  On Fridays Adafruit has some hardware fun. This week the top of an old pager was cracked open. There is a radio receiver inside that is constantly listening to the frequency that the pager is on. It is demonstrated that there is serial data that can be seen leaving the radio receiver chip. On an upcoming hack the data will be fed into a computer and the stream of

Digital Paperless Receipt System

  Keeping track of paper receipts is a pain. I have lost a few here and there and later needed them to get warranty work done. Some stores are starting to offer receipt re-printing based on your credit card number but you would still need to go back to the store and wait in line for the re-print. It would be great if all your receipts were automatically stored in

Hard Drive Laser Show

  Sensory House made a version of Hard Drive Oscilloscope that was build a few years ago. The effects of the Sensory House version is great, the effects are nice and big! Thanks for listing us as your resource. 🙂